Dokument #1354883
IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (Autor)
There is little information currently
available specific to the activities and policies of Ilinden since
the Bulgarian national elections held in the fall of 1991. An April
1992 report from the BBC indicates that the Ilinden United
Macedonian Organization is illegal and further notes that the
organization, after being denied permission to hold a meeting to
commemorate the anniversary of Yane Sandanski's death and being
refused attendance at the Macedonian spring fair, tried to organize
a rally in Melnik (22 Apr. 1992). A BBC report from November 1991
indicates that the Bulgarian Press alleged that the Communist
government of Yugoslavia was involved in the Ilinden organization
and that the Ilinden organization circulated a document demanding
Bulgaria's withdrawal from the Pirin region (19 Nov. 1991). Please
find these articles attached.
There is no further information currently
available to the IRBDC on this topic.
BBC Summary of World Broadcasts. 22
April 1992. "Prosecutor General Attends Macedonian Spring Fair."
(NEXIS)
_____. 19 November 1991. "Relations With
Yugoslavia in Brief." (NEXIS)
Human Rights Watch. December 1991.
Human Rights Watch World Report 1992. New York: Human Rights
Watch.
Immigration and Refugee Board
Documentation Centre (IRBDC), Ottawa. April 1991. Bulgaria:
Political Parties and Groups.